Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

circa 17,6 x 11,8 cm., With many engraved plates. Original half-cloth with title to spine and decorated boards (Minerva / putti in frame on blue background) First edition, volumes I-XVI of presumably 19 (?). The series was continued until 1834 and gives a large overview of artwork in European museums of the time. The plates were engraved by Réveil and are accompanied by texts in English and French by the curator Jean Duchesne (1779-1855) who supplies a descripion of each painting together with notes about the subjet, ist background, mythology or historical meaning, some information about the artist or arguments about attribution, provenance etc. There are many masterpieces like Titian s "Venus and Adonis", the frescoes by Raffael or his "Transfigurations", Dutch masters etc. - Some browning or staining, bindings rubbed, coners bumped, but still a decorative set in the pretty original covers.